| Description |
112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Living with health challenges
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Essential health |
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Health challenges.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
What is happening to me? -- Defining celiac disease -- Why me? -- Causes and risk factors -- From bad to worse : complications -- I have what? tests and diagnosis -- Life without gluten : treatment -- Making changes at home -- Navigating in a gluten-filled world -- I can do this : coping and the future. |
| Summary |
Discusses aspects of the autoimmune disorder, including its causes, risk factors, and complications, and describes the gluten-free diet, a lifestyle change which sufferers traditionally adopt to treat the illness. |
| Subject |
Celiac disease -- Juvenile literature.
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Celiac disease.
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| ISBN |
9781617831256 |
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1617831255 |
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